AuthorTopic: Bad inittab entry: (Read 9941 times)

BIOS data check successfulUncompressing Linux. . . Ok, booting the kernel.Bad inittab entry: id:3:initdefault:I used VASM to set up LiLo.Puppy uses GrUB but i'm trying LiLo first as i don't want to get too involved with this.

Thanks.

Gus

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“Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.” -- Bill Moyers

I am going to guess that your /etc/lilo.config has an 'image=' section for your Puppy partition. Personally, I am rarely able to get this to work (the wrong System.map usually gets loaded).

I have found that using the 'other=' for additional Linux partitions works well -- though in theory it should not be necessary. You have to install Puppy's GRUB to its partition's boot sector (not the MBR) and then reboot into Vector and add another Windows entry to Lilo which actually points to the Puppy partition. The last part of your /etc/lilo.config should look something like this: